The Fitzgerald Act

THE NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP ACT (50 Stat. 664; 29 U.S.C. 50)

To enable the [U.S.] Department of Labor to formulate and promote the furtherance of labor standards necessary to safeguard the
welfare of apprentices and to cooperate with the States in the promotion of such standards.

Be it enacted by the senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of Labor is hereby authorized and directed to formulate and promote the furtherance of labor standards necessary to
safeguard the welfare of apprentices, to extend the application of such standards by encouraging the inclusion thereof in contracts
of apprenticeship, to bring together employers and labor for the formulation of programs of apprenticeship, to cooperate with State
agencies engaged in the formulation and promotion of standards of apprenticeship, and to cooperate with the National Youth
Administration and with the Office of Education of the Department of the Interior in accordance with the section 6 of the Act of
February 23, 1917 (29 Stat. 932), as assembled by the Executive Order Numbered 6166, June 10, 1933, issued pursuant to an Act of
June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 414) as amended.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Labor may publish information relating to existing and proposed labor standards of
apprenticeship, and may appoint national advisory committees to serve without compensation. Such committees shall include
representatives of employers, representatives of labor, educators, and officers of other executive departments, with the
consent of the head of any such department.

SEC. 3. On and after the effective date of this Act the National Youth Administration shall be relieved
of direct responsibility for the promotion of labor standards of apprenticeship as heretofore conducted through the division
of apprentice training and shall transfer all records and papers relating to such activities to the custody of the Department
of Labor. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to appoint such employees as he may from time to time find necessary for the
administration of this Act, with regard to existing laws applicable to the appointment and compensation of employees of the
United States: Provided, however, That he may appoint persons now employed in division of apprentice training of the
National Youth Administration upon certification by the Civil Service Commission of their qualifications after nonassembled
examinations.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1937, or as soon thereafter as it shall be approved.